My thing with using a FULL name for Kate is: If we are gonna call her Kate anyway what difference does it make. And really how often do you use a full name? unless they are getting yelled at or its graduation or something
I am not a Nick name person. I would prefer not to use a name that I am not going to use anyway, and then have to call them something else. ehhh. I know everyone does it- just not my thing...It always annoys me that people try to shorten my Name- which is already a 4 letter name.

Anna was on the list- but I have a great aunt and uncle who are Adam and Anna, don't want to match them. My son is not actually named for that Uncle.... I also have a rather annoying aunt that send my Husband nasty emails about not finding out the gender of the baby and played the illness "what if I die, I need to know" card whose name is Ann and we don't want it to be assumed to be named after her. So for personal family reasons, we changed our mind...

I know a lot of Abigails...

I have considered Jane as a first name but... I am not sold on it...
I am not a fan of the other forms of Grace girls, but thanks, I think it just comes to the nick name - why name them something you don't want or aren't going to call them anyway thing...